Evening Star Newspaper, August 3, 1930, Page 105

UNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C—GRAVURE SECTION—AUGUST Love Among the Talkies By W. E. Hill. (Copyright, 1930, by the Chicago Tribune Syndicate.) I'he costume stuff. The hero of this movie operetta 1s a beautiful officer of Napoleon's bodygard. who, while escaping from something. climbs up a rain spout and into a boudoir occupied by a royalist debutante of the period. It is love at first sight, and the voung countess. being very proud, tries to bludgeon her admirer with a shoe tree They have a terrific argument about politi ssues and the officer has to gag her to prevent her from calling the gendarmes. The theme song is “Why Do You Teach Me to Love You So. When I Have to Pretend That I Don’t. You know?™ After a number of abductions and kidnaping expedition:, during which the lady lcarns her lover’s true worth, they are married in Notre Dame. with Napoleon as best man, and the army singing the theme song in the background. There is a wedding breakfast at Versailles. done in techuicolor, with a thousand Albertina Rasp The noble love. Larry, the big silent hero, loves his pal's girls skipping on the lawn Educational ilms. Amocbas have sweetheart and she has learned to love him—would that they had just as much love life as any- ne'er set eyes upon each other. Larry is going to go off to the body el as you will find out hills and never come back; because. after all, a pal is a pal, and after viewing an ecducational film noble sacrifice goes big in the talkies showing the amoeba at play, with microphone announcement of the principal stages of courtship. Even the plainest amoebas are con- sciously alluring, and the more dash- ing girl amoebas marry young— often at 10 days of age. There's a crowd. Here we have one of those heartless socicety girls, ever sceking a new thrill, toying mercilessly with the affections of a young vaudeville actor. thereby causing his partner untold an guish of heart, because she loves him with a pure love. The young man and his lady partner do a polite juggling act Hequet seanclessawithihis weork dani onc The underworld love. Sylvia, the gang leader’s girl, falls in love with the district attorncy and loses all cvening he misses a cue and 4 cannon e o crowd. so ihat she ncarly spoils a murder through inattention. Black Dan, the wang leader, is ball drops on the orchestra leader. Later e and has the district attorney sent to prison on a trumped-up charge. Dan tells Sylvia that the district anfihefcome sitofhessan e s inagiuce e < “has Hone there of his own iree will to escape her affection, but Sylvia suspects there is more than meets {opEcsiawatishe ksaw fiie in ght wshic o R hen she finds out the truth she is wild and shoots Black Dan through the liver in a night club. Black Urchedingoniagtetea tote dShowniherc) Dan'd Getter nature asserts itself before he dies and he takes the blame of the shooting as well as signing a con- atithessosicbyagidisflime s i the district attorncy, Of course, Sylvia and her district attorney marry immediately and every- o Al "Cilvia taking her rightful place in Newport socicty. The theme song is “There's Murder in Your Eye, Dearie.” The voice oi the tempter. Poor little Crissey! A handsome stranger stopped at the perfume counter ot the 3 and 10 where Crissey works and told her that if she would come to his pent house that night he would discuss her prospects of advancement at the store And he sent her a beautiful gown wear. Crisscy never sus- pected a thing until he tried 1o embrace her and then in a fash she realized that Ronald Gunboat was not being the gentleman she had supposed iim to be. “Oh, you worsc than heast,” Crissey is sobbing, not knowing that 5 5 i i honest Eddie Gilligan. her poor but honest admirer. who Very young love. The roguish love scene, which is very highly thought The wise-cracking lover. A large percentage of the movie public likes its clerks in the Lady Dainty Boot Shop, is even now bound of at the moment. Just chock full of curls, teeth, gurgles and bashiul abandon ¢ stuff done comie, with a hard-hoiled hero who sasses everything in sight, ing up the rear fire escape to the rescu The theme song will cither be “Let’s Go ‘Boo’ at Old Man Gloom” or “Keep a pins a “Do not open until Christmas™ tag on his girl's mamma and is so . Rainbow for a Rainy Day.” and will be on sale at all the 5 and 10 cent stores ingenuous and thoroughly irresistible that everybody zoes crazy about him Even the admiral of the flect is intrigued and advises him to resign irom the Navy. .